Pond Bird
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12 minutes ago, Team DEMP said:
The "event" now shows as:
Collect points individually by finding different geocache types on the Friend League between March 19 and April 15 and earn up to 10 new souvenirs to become an Official Space Explorer.Will I still be credited with points for the caches I found today thinking the promotion was ending tonight? It still shows as 442 even though I found 4 mystery caches today meaning my point count should be moved up to 502!
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58 minutes ago, Fields111 said:
Problem with points not been counted for is still happening. Just made some logs and the score have not incremented.
Same problem here. I found 4 mystery caches today because I knew I needed almost 60 more points to get to the 500 needed for the souvenirs and I checked my friend league score and it was the same as it was before I logged the caches, very nervous I missed the deadline even though I thought it wasn't for a few more hours!
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4 minutes ago, DyverDown said:
Still down here in Canada.... 505 error
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Yup, 505 error here to for the US too. I have to be at the spot in an hour that I hope to find multiple geocaches (but I may only get to find 1 that I DNF'd last week) I hope they bring the site back online, otherwise the Planetary Pursuit should be extended.
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3 minutes ago, duncanhoyle said:
Status doesn't indicate anything other than it's broken and the current downtime
Their Twitter feed says that they're working on it
https://twitter.com/GoGeocaching
The same happened last weekend and usually does whenever they put out souvenirs. Time to invest some money in a more robust server setup perhaps...
I don't believe A robust server is going to do automatic website updates. Neither of those sites you gave links to says when they will bring the site back online.
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On 3/31/2018 at 6:04 PM, Archerzone said:
New customer here and was very excited to begin my hunting, however I am unable to access ANY premium geocaches as in the "ABOUT" section I only see "This content could not be loaded." I am a paid yearly member and right now I cant access any premium cache on the app. The normal caches work fine. Please help!
I'm having a problem where Premium Member only solved coordinates are not showing up on the map, but the posted coords are instead.
On 3/31/2018 at 6:06 PM, on4bam said:Have you tried to log out and then log in again?
This is a great idea when something isn't working right to try and log out of the app/site. Then log back in as if you were logging in from the device for the first time. Sometimes things just need to get refreshed. Maybe I should try this to fix the problem that I'm having.
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1 minute ago, baer2006 said:
The status (working / not working) is literally changing every few seconds here. It makes logging an "interesting" experience
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What does the "Status" say is the time the website will be back online?
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6 minutes ago, fairymicha said:
hasn't been working here for a couple of hours... always error 500. never get any further than the login page
Pity, wanted to head out this evening....
I'm heading out today to get more points for the Planetery Pursuit and there was no warning that the website would be down for a while today. Very upset if I'd known I would've gotten the coordinates ahead of time
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18 hours ago, The A-Team said:
I can't think of a third-party checker that only allows 10 attempts per day. The three most popular third-party checkers all have the same limit of 10 attempts per 10 minute period as the new solution checker.
Not everyone considers this to be convenient. In fact, some of us find it downright inconvenient and would like an option to disable this portion of the feature altogether. Having the corrected coordinates on the cache listing interferes with my typical workflow using GSAK. If I need to use a built-in solution checker and get a success, the first thing I do is scroll up to the top and restore the posted coordinates.
Certitude allows 10 attempts in a 10 minute period is correct, I didn't know that the solution checker was the same. Also, I'm curious as to why you would want to restore the posted coordinates if you had the corrected coordinates. That way you wouldn't have to solve it again as long as the coordinates remained the same.
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Honestly, in SOME scenarios the solution checker on the cache page is useful because you can see the options in front of you and if you miss one number you can try again. Typically other coord checkers give you at least 10 tries per day so the solution checker gives 10 tries in a certain period of time. In other scenerios where you have a puzzle that may include a keyword, you probably would use certitude for that. Or a puzzle involving multiple steps again another checker would do. I've noticed on a few newer puzzle caches in my area the solution checker is used for non-cipher puzzles and it is more convenient since once you get it right it will automatically insert the corrected coords for you.
I believe the solution checker is mostly compatible for caches where you are given variables such as "final is at N 43 00.xyz W 077 45.910" because you can look up and down on the screen to check (like you would when entering coords in a GPS) instead of going from one page to another. I still would use other checkers for caches that use ciphers and note that the solution checker doesn't offer the keyword ability so you still would have to use another checker if the solution were a keyword, and/or if it included multiple steps.
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Looks like we have a Goodbye 2017 souvenir for New Years Eve by finding any cache or attending an event.
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On 10/12/2017 at 7:11 PM, The A-Team said:
If it's a Garmin device, then that happens sometimes. Try the following procedure:
- Copy the GPX file to somewhere on your computer and then delete it from the GPSr.
- Disconnect and turn on the GPSr. It should discover that it has no GPX files.
- Turn it off and connect it to your computer.
- Copy the GPX file back onto the GPSr, disconnect, and turn it on.
By doing this, you reset the internal index and force it to read the data from the GPX file again.
As a reminder, ensure you always use the "eject" function when disconnecting the device from your computer, or there can be file corruption which can lead to the issue you experienced.
I've tried this and still not working after 3 months.
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I'm having an issue where my computer shows I have an unzipped GPX file in the GPX folder of my GPS but when I turn the GPS on after disconnecting it from the computer the caches don't show up.
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Some parks require a 2-year permit and once its expired the cache is archived because of issues like these. If the park or location itself is OK that people need to create geotrails to get to a geocache then don't need to archive cache listings.
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On 8/18/2017 at 4:34 PM, The A-Team said:
If you clicked on that "Learn more" link on the homepage, you'd see (in bold, no less):
I did that I wasn't saying I didn't click or not know what types counted but thanks for the clarification. I was just stating I didn't know WHICH cache I was going to find. I can always count on you to clarify the event information especially since its on your website!
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Others have mentioned upcoming International Geocaching Day on August 19. On the home page it says you can earn a souvenir. Wondering what cache I should find this saturday?
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There is a thread called "Found it = didn't find it" and it sounds like some of these stories fit into that category. There is a cacher that went with her family and logged a found it when the cache was gone and she didn't actually find it. I know its technically not logging a throwdown as a find, but still....
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I have been having this problem where I log in and it logs me out! today it logged me out and now I get a 500 server error! I hope its a weird bug going on and the website design experts are fixing this issue.
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On 4/17/2017 at 11:34 PM, noncentric said:
Yep. In some cases, one member of a family may pay for premium membership and go caching with other family members that are Basic members. If those Basic members find the cache, then they are entitled to log the cache. They can use this site to accomplish that: http://www.geocachingadmin.com/
Thats exactly what I do with my family they always go with me so if they end up finding a PMO I just copy the link to log and paste it in the other browser for them to log a find on the cache they did with me.
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13 hours ago, lee737 said:
I like to have all caches in the areas we will go on the GPS. I'm with kids, so a lot of T4+ won't happen, but filtering them doesn't save much. I just work out the radius we'll be in, and do as many as it takes to incorporate them all. You never know where you might stop, and there will be a quick P&G! I guess there is always the iPhone for the missed ones....
I find the PQ's easy, the hard bit is working out which ones to go for. We've just spent the weekend at my childhood home, and we have never cached here, so it was a bit daunting - we just chose a particular target for a trip, and then grabbed some other bystander caches..... That is often how our trips go down. There is an area near here with 4 EarthCaches in close proximity, so this morning they were our main objective, and we grabbed a few trads in between.
All T4+ caches are T3+ and in my response to the OP I mentioned that I wouldn't include T3+ but looks like others would. Interesting... I agree PQs can be easy to do but I really like using the filters. I think the method you use is productive however.
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29 minutes ago, Mineral2 said:
It looks like next month I'll be visiting Denver for a few days while visiting friends. We'll be all over the city and the mountains exploring the sights. Denver is a very cache-dense city. A search within a 10-mile radius of the city center turns up almost 3000 caches, and a 30 mile radius, which would cover the entire metro area including some of the mountain areas we'd likely be in, turns up just under 10,000 caches (these searches omit puzzle caches, which I include separately as I solve them).
I've always been a critic of those who "have to have them all." And while I could set up 9 PQs to capture all of the caches in a 30 mile radius, that seems overkill. But at the same time, I'm a bit overwhelmed as to how to go about narrowing down the caches that I do include in my PQs. So I'm looking for some advice. When you travel to new areas that are very cache dense, how do you decide which caches to include and which to omit on your GPS? Or do you just "bring them all?"
And yes, I recognize that I could load a subset of caches on the GPS and then supplement with my phone. Maybe I'm overthinking this?Do you use the "filters" feature at all? If you go to the home page to do a search, you can use the filters to find certain types of caches within a certain distance from the center of an area such as Denver. You can set it to be all caches less than Difficulty 3 and less than Terrain 3 since Difficulties and Terrains more will take more time to look for/find. Then you will get the list of caches that fit that criteria and you can "add" them to a bookmark list you can also add based on caches near a certain cache itself using a GC code.
Also, if you need to fill in grids Project-GC may be able to help you find cache candidates and you can do all the caches in that area. I know this sounds difficult but I hope you try this, it seems to work for me anyways.
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I hope it is only gone temporarily from the website. I *loved* seeing unfound puzzles showing on the map at the corrected coords. Critically important feature! Made it really easy to see which puzzles you have solved in an area and which you have not. I am fine with them moving back to posted coords on the map once found (to preserve geo-art).
Looks like its been fixed with the homepage looking different as well.
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The problem is not all caches show on the map with the corrected coords (only some) and I agree with the OP that people should see caches at the corrected coordinates like we saw over the holiday weekend!
Some may consider it a 'problem', while others may not. There are valid reasons to see caches at posted coords (geoart, cache icon overlapping) and also valid reasons to see caches at corrected coords (searching, proximity checking). I think that Groundspeak's implementation was an attempt to accommodate both sides, but obviously not everyone agrees with it. My hope is that the feature's implementation will be adjusted, preferably with a toggle option.
In any case, this isn't a "bug".
Well I liked seeing where the caches were that I solved without doing the PQs. So hopefully there will be an option for that and keep things the other way for those who don't want to see it. Anyways, its not necessarily a bug to some people, but we're supposed to be seeing where the caches corrected coords are on the map.
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Browser: Mozilla and IE
Steps to reproduce:
1) enter your own coordinates of a solved mysterie -> the POI on the map is changed to the entered coordinates
2) look after Cache and log your found online
Observed behavior:
1) The coordinates seemed to be removed in the listening
2) the POI on the map is changed to the original POI
Expected behavior:
1) The POI stays on its place (your own entered coordinates)
2) The mystery-icon turned to a smiling face ;-)
-> This would be fine for planing my own Caches if i have an online map where the solved mysteries are marked on my entered coordinates.
-> I also looked up in the listening- the entered (own) coordinates are not removed.
As noncentric said, this isn't a bug, this is a new feature of the map on the website and app. If you have corrected coordinates entered for a cache, the icon will show at the corrected coordinates with a puzzle piece icon. Once you have found the cache it will turn into a smiley and will go back to the original coordinates. You can find the entire announcement here
The problem is not all caches show on the map with the corrected coords (only some) and I agree with the OP that people should see caches at the corrected coordinates like we saw over the holiday weekend!
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Blanket throwdown permission is benign compared to what we have around here. For example, see all of the geocaches by this player:
https://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?u=MNRN
TL; DR: All of them have this disclaimer at the end:
ATTENTION: I accept photo log at the exact coordinates if you are not able to find the cache.
He really does not maintain them (I have searched a couple of them myself shortly after his "maintenance"). When confronted with a "Needs Archived" log he responds with a fake "Owner Maintenance" log and the reviewer looks the other way. See, for example, GC1JCP2 and GC39DTW.
There are other, less extreme, examples of similar behaviour around here.
Unfortunately, there was a cache that required people to send answers to a question because they placed a cache where the state keeps developing things for the state fair and the CO is unable to place a container now so its going to be archived if the owner doesn't find another location within 2 miles. In the case that the cache isn't being maintained and photo logs are the norm, thats definately not a traditional cache find. More of a "Visited a location." Tough scenarios exist I know, should I say more?
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Pity, wanted to head out this evening....
Accidentally deleted AL find but app says I completed it.
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I completed an adventure lab today, during the process of getting the coords for the final I had a wrong number, so I was trying to go back to see the stages. I accidentally clicked on a button that deleted the finds. How can I fix this?